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RBPTILIA. 
FAUN^. 
Europe, 
The systematic description of the Reptiles belonging to Italy, by- 
E. DE Betta, forms Part iv. fascc. 1 & 2 (pp. 1-107), of the work “ LTtalia 
sotto I’aspetto fisico, storico, &c. II. Fauna d’ltalia,” Milano : 1874 
[see Zool. Rec. ix. p. 83]. 
P. Pavesi enumerates and adds remarks on the Reptiles of the Can- 
tone Ticino. Atti Soc. Ital. xvi. pp. 43-45. 
Von Mollendoufp establishes the Bosnian Reptile fauna as consisting 
of 2 Tortoises, 5 Lizards, 10 Snakes, and 11 Batrachians. Beitrage zur 
Fauna Bosniens ; Gorlitz ; 1873, 8vo, 73 pp. 1 pi. 
Africa. 
Hanoteau & Letourneux in “ La Kabylie,” Paris : 1873, vol. i. 
p. 160, give a short list of reptiles noticed by them in Kabylia. 
O. Bottger has monographed the Reptiles of Morocco and the Canary 
Islands in Abh. senck. Ges. ix. pp. 121-191, and also separately, Frank- 
fort a. M : 1874, 4to, pp. 71, pi. 
A. Reichenow describes a collection of Reptiles made by himself and 
Dr. Luhder, characterizing one new genus and two new species of Frogs. 
Arch. 1 Nat. 1874, pp. 287-298, pi. ix. 
A. Gunther describes Reptiles from the Camaroon Mountains. 
P. Z. S. 1874, pp. 442-445, pis. Ivi. & Ivii. 
Persia and Baluchistan. 
W. T. Blanford has published two papers describing new forms of 
Reptiles from these countries. Ann. N. H. (4) xiii. pp. 453-455, xiy. 
pp. 31-33. 
Savage Island. 
A. Gunther describes 4 Lizards (1 new) and 1 snake (new) from this 
island. P. Z. S. 1874, pp. 295-297, pi. xlv. 
New Guinea. 
Adolf Meyer communicates an account of a collection of Reptiles 
(57 species) from this island, Jobi, Mysore, and Mafoor, containing 
notices of several new species. MB. Ak. Berl. 1874, pp. 128-140. 
America. 
J. A. Allen’s Notes on the Natural History of Montana and Dakota 
(P. Bost. Soc. xvii. pp. 68-70) show the Reptilia to be extremely scarce 
in those regions. 
“Mission Scientifique an M4xique et dans I’Am^rique Centrale.” 
Sheets 15 to 24 of the 3rd part, devoted to Reptiles and Batrachians, 
by A. Dum:i^ril and F. Bocourt, with plates xvi. to xviii. bis, have 
been published ; they contain a continuation of the descriptions of 
Jguanidm. 
28 Reptiles collected by J. Bransford in Nicaragua, containing 
